"One reader is better than another in proportion as he is able of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts more effort."

-- Mortimer Adler

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“I was in Nepal and I had watched Oprah Winfrey's show. I had no idea, as a kid in Nepal, who she was, but I remember watching an episode of hers about living your dreams.”

Source : "Prabal Gurung: From Nepal to global fashion stardom". www.cbsnews.com. February 11, 2013.
“I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.”
“Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again.”
“The past is necessarily inferior to the future. That is how we wish it to be. How could we acknowledge any merit in our most dangerous enemy: the past, gloomy prevaricator, execrable tutor?”

Source : "The Archaeologist's Book of Quotations". Book by K Kris Hirst, 2016.
“My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called my uncle. He was like a father to me. I was closer to him than I was my father.”
“I observed that the successful farmer worked at his job. He would do his plowing, disking, harrowing, seeding, and harvesting in the proper season and at the proper time, while his neighbor was procrastinating, or off hunting and fishing while the work was still to be done. We must learn to set our priorities straight. No one can be successful in his line of work unless he works at it in the proper season and plays in the proper season.”
“No word makes me happier than the word "daddy" when it's directed to me.”
“It has always been, and will always be true; those who do the most good suffer more than most do.”

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